Instead of finishing the manuscript for another detective, trouble pulled me—Viola Tarakanova—into agreeing to go on a date with a guy my friend Nastya met online. On websites and in chats, he hung out under the nickname “The Great Dragon.” Nastya is a trendy hairdresser, very rich, drives a pink “Mercedes,” but she doesn’t have a husband. For some reason, she couldn’t go herself to the meeting—so she disguised me and sent me ahead, with songs… Five minutes after I appeared, gangsters showed up at this Dragon’s place, and I barely managed to get away. And then Nastya was kidnapped, the Great Dragon—“Dima” in the real world—was killed, and now I have to save my friend, find something incomprehensible, and return this “something” to some Martyn. The search led me to a salon where—of all things—Dima also worked as a hairdresser. I would’ve been better off getting into a cage with hungry tigers…